Scholarship

Animal Compassion Undergraduate Scholarship Award

Pet Insurance U is excited to announce the 2017 Animal Compassion Veterinary Scholarship Award! This scholarship program is open to veterinary undergraduate students enrolled in a degree program at an accredited institution.

Who should apply? Applicants with extracurricular community outreach experience, with an interest in animal advocacy and combatting animal cruelty.

This scholarship focuses on the need for future veterinary professionals to use their digital reach to engage and educate the public on matters related to fair treatment for all animals.

These efforts are aimed at fostering:

Public literacy of research supporting animal sentience

Raising awareness about various types of animal cruelty

Educating the public on the research and science of animal emotions is the duty of every future veterinary professional. Sadly, this task is left for news media outlets and important messages are often obscured by sensationalized study results, catchy news headlines, and oversimplified research summaries.

Public outreach efforts by veterinary professionals can meaningfully sway public opinion on issues related to animal rights. If your educational and personal history includes ongoing efforts to change people’s minds about the mistreatment of animals, please apply for this year’s scholarship award — we would love to hear your story.

Scholarship Criteria

Applicants must demonstrate academic distinction along with financial need. Additionally, this scholarship award will focus on expanding the duties of the veterinary profession to include creating and maintaining a dialogue with the general public, outreach to media outlets and other consumer organizations and education efforts aimed at improving public literacy about important animal research and ongoing needs and efforts of that they can become involved with. This scholarship will be awarded to students whose career interests include clinical veterinary medicine, animal research, teaching, etc.

Through the animal compassion scholarship program, veterinary professionals through Pet Insurance U will identify students who have demonstrated outstanding efforts aimed at improving public understanding of what constitutes animal cruelty and what can be done to curb its proliferation.

Recipient Award

There will be one student scholarship award available in the amount of $500. This is an equal opportunity award for all qualified applications who meet minimum eligibility requirements.

Student Criteria

Currently enrolled and in good standing at a WASC accredited undergraduate program in the United States.

Current overall GPA of 3.0 or above

Plans to pursue graduate studies in veterinary medicine.

Proven history of animal advocacy

Ability to demonstrate financial need

Application Requirements and Deadline

The application period opens on January 1, 2017 and closes on December 31st, 2017. All applications must be fully submitted by December 31st to qualify. The award recipient will be announced on January 31, 2018 and will be notified via email.

Animal Compassion Undergraduate Scholarship Award

Pet Insurance U is excited to announce the 2017 Animal Compassion Veterinary Scholarship Award! This scholarship program is open to veterinary undergraduate students enrolled in a degree program at an accredited institution.

Who should apply? Applicants with extracurricular community outreach experience, with an interest in animal advocacy and combatting animal cruelty.

This scholarship focuses on the need for future veterinary professionals to use their digital reach to engage and educate the public on matters related to fair treatment for all animals.

These efforts are aimed at fostering:

Public literacy of research supporting animal sentience

Raising awareness about various types of animal cruelty

Educating the public on the research and science of animal emotions is the duty of every future veterinary professional. Sadly, this task is left for news media outlets and important messages are often obscured by sensationalized study results, catchy news headlines, and oversimplified research summaries.

Public outreach efforts by veterinary professionals can meaningfully sway public opinion on issues related to animal rights. If your educational and personal history includes ongoing efforts to change people’s minds about the mistreatment of animals, please apply for this year’s scholarship award — we would love to hear your story.

Scholarship Criteria

Applicants must demonstrate academic distinction along with financial need. Additionally, this scholarship award will focus on expanding the duties of the veterinary profession to include creating and maintaining a dialogue with the general public, outreach to media outlets and other consumer organizations and education efforts aimed at improving public literacy about important animal research and ongoing needs and efforts of that they can become involved with. This scholarship will be awarded to students whose career interests include clinical veterinary medicine, animal research, teaching, etc.

Through the animal compassion scholarship program, veterinary professionals through Pet Insurance U will identify students who have demonstrated outstanding efforts aimed at improving public understanding of what constitutes animal cruelty and what can be done to curb its proliferation.

Application Requirements and Deadline

The application period opens on January 1, 2017 and closes on December 31st, 2017. All applications must be fully submitted by December 31st to qualify. The award recipient will be announced on January 31, 2018 and will be notified via email.

If I’m graduated cum laude as of December 2016 from Oregon State University and officially accepted an offer to study veterinary medicine at AVMA accredited University of Edinburgh, am I eligible to apply?